Lees v. Drainage Commissioners

This was a petition for a common law writ of certiorari, to bring before the circuit court of Kane county a transcript of the record of the proceedings of drainage commissioners of district No. 2, in the town of Virgil, in Kane county, for the purpose of testing the legality of the organization of the district.

The law is well settled that circuit courts have jurisdiction to award writs of certiorari, at common law, to inferior tribunals and jurisdictions, where it is shown either that they have exceeded the limits of their jurisdiction, or in cases where they have proceeded illegally, and no…